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(Posted at 2345 UK time on 10 Nov 2012.  Unless otherwise notified, all my posts, tweets, etc. are made in a personal capacity).

I realise that it is hard for people to understand what this is all about, unless they have the time to read through all the relevant threads.  So here is a summary of the key facts and events leading up to the present situation.  I have tried to make it as short as possible, but there are 4 professional complaints involved (3 by me, 1 by another actuary), 5 different Adjudication Panels and 3 independent examiners, over a period of more than 3 years. I have also only shown events since May 2009 (when the first complaint was made).  There are other aspects (not events) which I will not refer to until after 20 November 2012 by which time I hope to have received a statement from the Disciplinary Board.  Note the Adjudication Panel members referred (Update 11 Nov 2012 0957: added missing word to here) to are anonymous until those which met in 2012.  The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries abandoned its long-standing policy of keeping the identity of panel members secret in late 2011, it seems as a direct result of the complaints made below.

May 2009: Someone else (whom I shall refer to as “Alpha”) made a professional complaint that (paraphrasing a bit) during the 2009 (“Chartered Actuarial Profession”) merger campaign some actuaries had made statements that appeared to put an unwarranted pro-merger and simplistic “spin” on some data. For ease of reference, I colour code items relating to the “Alpha” complaint in yellow below. Continue reading →